Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 5/2021

Climate action

Climate impacts are getting worse: blizzard-hit highway near the Gulf of Mexico.
Biden administration

Biden is respoding to climate activists

How demands for a Green New Deals are inspiring White House policymaking

Elinat Daka in her field.
Weather forecasts

Waiting for rain – and advice

Crop farmer Elinat Daka relies on nature for a good yield, and timely weather-based advice would help

Refugee children in Uganda are waiting to be tested for malaria.
Uganda

More malaria and infectious diseases

Uganda fears a decline in public health as a result of climate change

More Articles

Columbia’s climate commitments make explicit reference to urban spaces: street scene in Medellín.
Governance

Connecting all dots

Tangible examples of climate collaboration across government levels deserve policymakers’ attention

Groundnut farmers have suffered major yield losses in Zambia.
Agriculture

Crop insurance and weather forecasting are closely linked

Crop insurance and more accurate weather forecasts will help farmers to cope with climate change

Collaborative Climate Action

Aspiration enhancing cooperation

Governments at all levels must cooperate to achieve climate goals

Campaigning in Pittsburgh last year: Biden is known to like trains and, as a senator, used to commute by rail for decades from Delaware to Washington for 36 years.
USA

Scaling up the USA’s climate ambitions

US President Joe Biden is eager to reassert his country’s leadership, including in the response to global warming

“In an unsustainable global environment, every nation will suffer”: Typhoon Haishen on 4 September 2020.
UNDP

After Covid-19 pandemic, "build forward better"

UNDP Administrator Steiner discusses progress on transition to prosperous low-carbon economies

Solar plant in Soroti east of Uganda’s capital Kampala.
Our view

Negative emissions to get to net zero

Governments must rise to their responsibility

Mauritius is losing its beaches to erosion, as here in Belle Mare at the east coast. , Building a light-rail transportation system is one of Mauritius’ measures to curb emissions. Construction site of the Metro Express in Port Louis, the capital city.
SIDS

Mauritian minister warns: “It is a matter of life and death”

Small island developing states are hardly responsible for climate change but most affected

Cyclone shelters saved lives: rural women seeking refuge on 20 May 2020.
Climate impacts

To prevent death and destruction, accept climate science

Bangladeshi climate expert spells out expectations for next global summit on global warming

Higher gas prices led to mass protests in Ecuador in 2019.
Decarbonisation

A carbon tax should promote redistribution

Redistribution is essential to the success of energy-price reforms in developing countries